As announced recently, Harold S. Vanderbilt '07 of New York City has given to the University an additional sum of $575,000 which completes the fund for the new dormitory of the Medical School, soon to be erected on Longwood Avenue, Brookline.

Last April Mr. Vanderbilt gave $125,000 for a gymnasium for the dormitory. The inclusion of the gymnasium in the dormitory, which marks a precedent in medical education, is part of the general movement for the prevention rather than the cure of disease. It is the wish of Mr. Vanderbilt that the gymnasium be used in connection with courses in the Medical School.

It is estimated, according to preliminary plans, that the land and the building, which will house 250 students and the gymnasium, will cost a little more than $1,300,000. Nearly 1500 doctors have subscribed to the fund a total of more than $110,000. About 600 other donors have given over $200,000 and Mr. Vanderbilt's two gifts aggregate $700,000. The University has agreed to contribute the sum of approximately $300,000 as an investment.

Building to House 250

The site of the dormitory is to be opposite the entrance to the Medical School at the corner of the Avenue Louis Pasteur and Longwood Avenue. The plans drawn by Coolidge, Shepley, Bulfinch and Abbott, architects, of Boston, provide for a building to house 250 students and leave space for a future addition to house 150 students.

The campaign for the dormitory fund started in September, 1923. The support of the doctors was most inspiring, not only in their individual gifts but also in the large number of gifts they secured from others. Mr. Vanderbilt's gift of the gymnasium and his final gift to complete the fund, are, however, by far the largest part of the fund and constitute the most generous recognition of the wisdom of the project and a most valuable aid to the Medical School.

Dr. Elliott P. Joslin, M.D. '95, was chairman, and Dr. Francis M. Rackemann '09, General Secretary, of the committee in charge of raising the fund.